Excellent ABAC Quatrains Family : Just Around the Bend by Treischel

So often when I travel on a river or a road, my passengers unravel, impatient to reach our goal. The scenery on the way can so often look the same. As the byways interplay In such similarity. It is then when I contend, with much assured conviction, "It's just around the next bend. So hang on to your britches." But bends can be contentious, as I frequently have found, despite the best intentions, that I sometimes can be wrong. Author Notes My wife always dreads when we're on either a canoe trip or a road trip, when asked how far is it to the next stop and I say "I think it's just around the next bend". Then it turns out to be the next 10 bends. Sadly, she doesn't trust me anymore. This Poem is a set of abac rhymed quatrains in an anapestic meter of 7 syllables. An abac rhyme is just the inverse of an abcb rhyme. Instead of only lines 2 and 4 rhyming, only lines 1 and 3 do. This lovely curve in the road was photographed by the author on East River Road, St. Paul, MN. in October 2014.

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